Jeremiah 5:22
Aren't you afraid of what I can do? declares the Lord. Don't you think you should tremble in my presence? I am the one who set up the shore as the sea's boundary, an everlasting limit that it can't cross. The waves crash against it, but they can't defeat it. They roar, but they can't cross the barrier.
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23But you people have a stubborn and rebellious attitude. You have left me and gone your own way.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:58If you don't carefully observe all these laws written down in this book so that you may show respect for this glorious and awesome Lord your God,
Job 26:10On the surface of the waters he set a boundary; he set a limit dividing light from darkness.
Job 38:10I set its limits, marking its borders.
Psalms 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together, he keeps the ocean depths in store.
Psalms 99:1The Lord reigns; let the nations tremble! He sits on his throne above the cherubim; let the earth shake!
Psalms 119:120I have goose bumps thinking of you—I'm in awe! I'm scared of your judgments!
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 5:21-25
Expostulation with Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: 22 Fear ye not me? saith the Lord : will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass… Read the whole commentary →